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Int 0756-2018

Requiring DCAS to review and report annually on the city’s efforts to collect racial and ethnic demographic information, including a review of racial classification categories and employee response rates.

IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Civil and Human Rightsintroduced 2018-04-11Local Law 2019/014

Enacted as Local Law 2019/014.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2018-04-11Passed: 2019-01-11Enacted: 2019-01-11

Summary

The bill would require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) to include in its annual report an analysis of employee response rates to the city’s efforts to collect racial demographic information of city employees, and whether changes in the racial and ethnic classification categories have had an impact on employee response rates. Further, DCAS would be required to review the racial and ethnic classification categories used to collect demographic information and provide recommendations for how to improve the use of such categories to reflect the City’s workforce.

Committee on Civil and Human RightsHuman Rights Commission, Equal Employment Practices Commission and Equal Employment Opportunity.

How it compares

34% of similar bills passed

17 passed · 33 died

This bill: 243 days in committee

Similar bills: median 429 days · 243 days when passed

Sponsors (6)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2018-04-11 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2018-04-11 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2018-04-23 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2018-04-23 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2018-04-23 · Committee on Civil Service and Labor
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2018-04-23 · Committee on Civil Service and Labor
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2018-12-10 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2018-12-10 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
ActionAmended by Committee
2018-12-10 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2018-12-10 · Committee on Civil and Human Rights
AdvancedApproved by Council
2018-12-11 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2018-12-11 · City Council
AdvancedCity Charter Rule Adopted
2019-01-11 · Administration
ActionReturned Unsigned by Mayor
2019-01-11 · City Council

Votes (58)

Aye (51)
Donovan J. RichardsAlicka Ampry-Samuel Helen K. RosenthalPaul A. ValloneBill PerkinsRobert E. Cornegy, Jr.Rafael L. Espinal, Jr.Jumaane D. WilliamsPeter A. KooCorey D. JohnsonInez D. BarronBen KallosKeith Powers Mark TreygerAndy L. KingBrad S. LanderCarlos MenchacaMark LevineEric A. UlrichBarry S. GrodenchikVanessa L. GibsonLaurie A. CumboChaim M. DeutschRuben Diaz, Sr.Justin L. BrannanDaniel Dromm Costa G. ConstantinidesMark Gjonaj Stephen T. LevinMathieu EugeneCarlina Rivera I. Daneek MillerAndrew CohenKaren KoslowitzDeborah L. RoseRory I. LancmanAntonio ReynosoYdanis A. RodriguezRitchie J. TorresFernando Cabrera Adrienne E. AdamsDiana I. AyalaMargaret S. ChinAlan N. MaiselFrancisco P. MoyaJames G. Van BramerDaniel Dromm Ben KallosHelen K. RosenthalBrad S. LanderMathieu Eugene
Nay (4)
Joseph C. BorelliRobert F. HoldenSteven MatteoKalman Yeger
Absent (3)
Rafael Salamanca, Jr.Bill PerkinsYdanis A. Rodriguez

Heard at (6)

City Council · 2018-12-11 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Civil and Human Rights · 2018-12-10 · 3:30 PM · 250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 14th Fl.
Committee on Civil and Human Rights · 2018-04-23 · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Civil Service and Labor · 2018-04-23 · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Civil and Human Rights · 2018-04-16 · 10:00 AM · 250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 16th Fl.
City Council · 2018-04-11 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (19)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Paragraph 9 of subdivision c of section 814.1 of the New York city charter is amended to read as follows: (9) No later than September 30, 2020, and no later than September 30 annually thereafter, publish and submit to the mayor, council and the commission on equal employment practices a report on the activities of the department of citywide administrative services and city agencies to provide fair and effective affirmative employment practices to ensure equal employment opportunity for minority group members and women who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, an analysis of the city government workforce and applicants for such employment by agency, title and classification except where a civil service exam was the basis of appointment; statistics relating to hiring, salary and promotion for all city agencies disaggregated by race, gender, and civil service classification and other categories as appropriate; a description of each agency's employment practices, policies and programs; an analysis of the effectiveness of the city's efforts to provide fair and effective affirmative employment practices to ensure equal employment opportunity for minority group members and women who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies; an analysis of employee response rates to efforts to collect demographic information over time, and whether changes in the racial and ethnic classification categories used to collect demographic information have had an impact on employee response rates; a review of racial and ethnic classification categories used to collect demographic information and recommendations for how to improve the use of such categories to reflect the city government workforce; and such legislative, programmatic and budgetary recommendations for the development, implementation or improvement of such activities as the commissioner deems appropriate. � 2. This local law takes effect on the same date as a local law amending the New York city charter, relating to creating an office of diversity and inclusion within the department of citywide administrative services, as proposed in introduction number 752-A for the year 2018, takes effect. IP/HKA LS 5912 12/3/2018 8:04pm 2